61.   The Thais, while also battling heroin, are focusing on methamphetamines, widely abused by everyone from wealthy teen-agers to slum dwellers and poor farmers.

62.   The slum dwellers use the canal at the mouth of the Kirtankhola River for bathing and cleaning because they have no water in their homes.

63.   The slum dwellers argue that they are paying the price as Manila tries to clean up its image ahead of the APEC summit meeting later this year.

64.   The war also shattered the traditional agrarian economy of the area, leading to intense frustrations among slum dwellers who years earlier had been self-sufficient farmers.

65.   They are taught about basic diseases and first aid and go around offering their services to other slum dwellers and street children.

66.   Violent clashes have erupted between slum dwellers and police protecting demolition teams on several occasions.

67.   Underground leftist groups also find shelter among disenchanted slum dwellers.

68.   When it rains, the slum dwellers shelter under improvised roofs of plastic sheeting.

69.   Yet subsidies for people ranging from the richest industrialist to the poorest slum dweller have become permanent fixtures of governments around the world.

70.   He enquired from a grocery store owner about his daily profits, chatted with an ironsmith and was introduced to several slum dwellers.